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Games Might Not Desensitize Us To Violence After All
The “video games desensitize children to violence” argument is a popular weapon in the arsenal of the anti-violent video game crowd. A new study finds violent games to have no effect on long-term emotional memory at all. Researchers at Ryerson University in Toronto led by Holly Bowen, a PhD candidate in psychology, gathered a group…
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How You Can Help Build A World-Class Video Game Museum
The staff at the Museum of Digital Art and Entertainment have the knowledge, passion, and the gaming artifacts to create a world-class video game museum in the San Francisco Bay area. Now they just need a place to put it. Archiving video game history is an important undertaking that needs to be handled with the…
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What Makes Zombies So Terrifying?
As the entertainment world’s zombie outbreak continues unabated, one of the nation’s top minds seeks an answer to a pressing question: What makes humans fear these brain-hungry abominations, aside from the whole brain-eating thing. Stephen Schlozman, MD, knows a little something about fear and the undead. He’s an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical…
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Crashing The Silent Protagonist Party
When a party’s guest list includes Gordon Freeman, The Legend of Zelda’s Link, and Crono from Chrono Trigger, the chances of striking up a good conversation are pretty slim, even for gaming’s most appropriate party crasher. I prefer the premise to the punch line in the latest video from the folks from Dorkly. There have…
By Mike Fahey
